Once-feared terror group ISIS will be wiped out TODAY by force backed by Brit SAS heroes

THE once-feared Islamic terror group ISIS, whose murderous leaders bragged about establishing a new Muslim caliphate for a thousand years, will be WIPED-OUT in a last bloody battle with British SAS soldiers and Syrian forces today.

British SAS officers working with US counterparts have under-pinned crushing pincer movements by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which have ruthlessly and methodically reduced ISIS fighter numbers to just 600. This last 600 are expected to be annihilated today in a last push to eradicate ISIS, and the evils the movement has wrought on huge swathes of the Middle East, from Syria. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned despite the territorial victory ISIS militants could still resort to lone-wolf terror tactics.

According to US military reconnaissance ISIS terrorists have been cornered in their last stronghold in the Syrian desert as Western backed troops close in for the final bloody battle.

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by the UK and US, is preparing for the culmination of a four-and-a-half-year fight to defeat the militants. Insiders predict a victory could come as early as this week.

The estimated 600 jihadists are holed up in Baghuz, 300 miles from Mosul, where Islamic State’s caliphate was proclaimed by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in July 2014.

In what would once have been a chilling speech in the Great Nouri mosque Mr al-Baghdadi called for Muslims around the world to obey him as the head of the decimated group.

Jeremy Hunt said: “Military action by many nations, including the UK, has broken Daesh’s grip on thousands of square miles of Syria and Iraq - and we can draw encouragement from that success at the same time as we salute the extraordinary courage of the coalition of armed forces who made it possible.

“Yet as we drive Daesh out of territorial strongholds we are seeing its operatives turning to guerrilla tactics and forming more conventional terrorist networks. So we must press on with the military campaign.”

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 70 civilians had been killed or injured in air strikes in recent days as the battle reaches its final stages.

At its peak, ISIS held land covering the size of Britain and governed more than eight million people in Syria and Iraq.

Children gather in a truck as they flee ISIS in Baghuz (Image: FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)

In December, US President Donald Trump sent shockwaves around the world when he announced that American troops fighting ISIS would withdraw from Syria, saying they had “beaten them badly”.

The controversial move prompted secretary of defence James Mattis to resign in protest over Mr Trump’s decision to bring 2,000 soldiers home - but the president later claimed he forced Mr Mattis from office.

More than 60 countries are involved in the coalition to defeat the terrorists which has left more than 20,000 civilians dead.

Since ISIS surged to power in July 2014, the Iraqi security forces are said to have lost 30,000 soldiers while the SDF is thought to have lost 10,000 men.

Children fleeing ISIS look on as they prepare to be evacuated (Image: FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)

Lorenzo Meloni, an Italian freelance photographer who has spent the last few weeks embedded with the SDF, said ISIS, also known as Daesh, is mounting suicide attacks as it scrambles to survive.

He told the Daily Telegraph: “Daesh is not giving up easy.

“They steak around behind the SDF line to carry out suicide attacks from within. They have been 10 today alone.